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Finally got my Hr-24 replacement after a year of dealing with customer service and not getting anywhere. I was having to reset the receiver once or twice a day as it would freeze up and become completely unresponsive. Activated new reciever last week and everything is good until yesterday. Exact same issue returns. Reset, everything works until turning the reciever on this morning. Frozen once again. Reset.... It seems to me that I should not be having to manually reset every single day. Customer service has moved me up to a new level and they had me cover up the ir port and unplug the off air tuner and are waiting until Friday to see what happens.
Is anyone else having issues with their hr-24's or did I just happen to get 2 defective receivers in a row?

I think unplugging the off-air module is a good diagnostic tool. It might also help us here, if you described the installation a bit, how you have it connected, what sort of networking you're using, etc.

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Finally got my Hr-24 replacement after a year of dealing with customer service and not getting anywhere. I was having to reset the receiver once or twice a day as it would freeze up and become completely unresponsive. Activated new reciever last week and everything is good until yesterday. Exact same issue returns. Reset, everything works until turning the reciever on this morning. Frozen once again. Reset.... It seems to me that I should not be having to manually reset every single day. Customer service has moved me up to a new level and they had me cover up the ir port and unplug the off air tuner and are waiting until Friday to see what happens. Is anyone else having issues with their hr-24's or did I just happen to get 2 defective receivers in a row?

Can you set the receiver and remote to operate in RF mode ? If you do not have an RF remote, get them to send you one.IR interference can cause the unit to freeze up and stop responding.

Press the Info button on the remote and hold it for a few seconds ( with the tape off the sensor eye ) until the system info comes to the screen. Choose more Info. The temperature should be at the bottom of that screen. What is the temp ?

Question for previous posters: If it was heat related or power related wouldn't it probably also be resetting itself.

Thanks for the suggestions and I will go check the temperature. I have an RF remote already.
The receiver is connected via hdmi to a Denon A/V receiver. The TV and Denon receiver have been working perfectly for years. Had Dish prior to changing over to Directv last year with the same setup, location, etc, and never had a problem like this.
What's strange is that they tell me they can't help me unless the receiver is frozen when I call them which is really a pain since it's always first thing in the morning when I am trying to get ready for work and don't have time to sit and explain the issues to a person that doesn't understand me for 15 minutes before they will finally transfer me to someone that can help. The first thing that person does is reset my receiver and then go through a bunch of things that are always ok. It's never less than an hour from the time I dial the phone until they tell me to call back next time it happens. It gets to a point where just hitting reset and waiting for it to come back alive is simpler than trying to get them to fix the problem!

When I first ordered Directv I received an HR24 that would constantly freeze. It mostly did it if I hit the skip back or forward more than once. It would also happen if I had it going fast forward and I passed the point I wanted and I would hit back. I had a tech come out and he replaced the lnb saying there was moisture in it. That did not fix the problem. I called tech support again and finally the next tech replaced the DVR. I believe the first one I had was HR24-100. The replacement is an HR24-200 and it hasn't happened since. This was 2 years ago.

How many receivers total i your system? How are they all wired? Are you connected to the internet? What Dish do you have? Some more detail may help us suggest a few things to try, to see if you can narrow down where your issues is coming from, if not eliminate it altogether.

I've just started having a similar issue with a HR22-100. It has worked perfectly since it was installed, about 3-4 years ago. Now it turns itself off and I have to unplug and wait a few seconds for it to turn back on. Power save is OFF and CS told me the same thing - everything is fine but to call right when it happens. I also have a HR 21-200 and it works fine.

Frozen again this morning. This time the screen was basically a green plaid pattern that was flashing. That is the first time I have seen that. Called and they are sending someone out to replace the receiver on Monday. They wanted to just mail me a new one but I told them that since I am paying for their home prtoection plan they should send someone out this time. Would be nice to actually have some equipment that works.
There are three receivers total. Only one DVR and that is the one that has the problems. They were all installed by Directv so they are wired however they should be. They ran all new cable when they did the installation. No internet connection. Not sure what dish it is but it was brand new and installed with the system last year.
After a week or so of the original installation, the receiver would be frozen first thing in the morning after being off all night. A reset was teh only thing to get it to work. Got to be where it was required once or twice a day before they sent me a new receiver two weeks ago. The new one worked perfectly for about a week before it was frozen first thing in the morning just like the old one. I disconnected the off air tuner and covered the IR port like the tech told me on Tuesday. This morning, green screen and unresponsive to front panel or remote.

They wanted to just mail me a new one but I told them that since I am paying for their home prtoection plan they should send someone out this time. Would be nice to actually have some equipment that works.

Here's hoping that if there's an external problem, it manifests itself while the technician is there. It doesn't sound likely from what you've described.

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I told them the same thing but at least they can replace the receiver and take the old one with them so I don;t have to drive to town and mail another one back. The first one I sent back is still floating around between fedex and USPS and neither of them seems to know who has it at this point.

Tech was here today. Realigned the dish and had me connect the hdmi out of the receiver directly to the TV and then use an optical cable for audio to my a/v receiver. We shall see if that does anything for the problem or not..... Had to reset the receiver yesterday morning with the plaid green flashing screen of death once again.
I am skeptical that this will resolve the situation but it's something new to try this week.

Finally got my Hr-24 replacement after a year of dealing with customer service and not getting anywhere. I was having to reset the receiver once or twice a day as it would freeze up and become completely unresponsive. Activated new reciever last week and everything is good until yesterday. Exact same issue returns. Reset, everything works until turning the reciever on this morning. Frozen once again. Reset.... It seems to me that I should not be having to manually reset every single day. Customer service has moved me up to a new level and they had me cover up the ir port and unplug the off air tuner and are waiting until Friday to see what happens. Is anyone else having issues with their hr-24's or did I just happen to get 2 defective receivers in a row?

This is why it took a year to get one to you. In the end, it's probably not the box that's an issue.

I've had two of them for more than 2 years and a 3rd for 10 months and have not had a lick of trouble. Sounds almost like a signal issue.

Sorry for the confusion. I connected the optical cable from the Hr-24 to my A/V receiver. The HDMI cable from the HR-24 goes directly to the TV now. Sound is the same with either the optical to the AVR or HDMI to AVR so that is not an issue.
We have had to lengthy power outages in the last 5 days so the receiver has been "reset" a couple of times this week. We'll see how it does for the next few days and if that cleared up the issues or not.
As far as taking a year for them to send me a new receiver, it had nothing to do with my setup but rather taking the time to deal with the customer service people. It was more convenient to just rest the receiver every morning than go through 30 minutes of being on hold and having someone read off a script on what should fix it. I was finally able to take the time to get the issue escalated to the next level of CS a few weeks ago and get things moving.

All 2011 & mostly 2012 models I purchased new this summer. SYSTEM 1 has the same TV turn off issues when volume, (or most any other controls which affect thru-put via HDMI are tinkered with! It also can happen without touching the remote(s) depending on the DIRECTV scene currently showing.)

System 2 works fine & has never failed!

The difference appears to be ox5d2 does not work on a hd24 / 100 box BUT does work on a hd24 / 200!! I’ve put together several other less specific examples from several blogs and all lead to the same conclusion. I’m sure it applies to other DirecTV release combinations as well.

Sorry for the confusion. I connected the optical cable from the Hr-24 to my A/V receiver. The HDMI cable from the HR-24 goes directly to the TV now. Sound is the same with either the optical to the AVR or HDMI to AVR so that is not an issue. We have had to lengthy power outages in the last 5 days so the receiver has been "reset" a couple of times this week. We'll see how it does for the next few days and if that cleared up the issues or not.As far as taking a year for them to send me a new receiver, it had nothing to do with my setup but rather taking the time to deal with the customer service people. It was more convenient to just rest the receiver every morning than go through 30 minutes of being on hold and having someone read off a script on what should fix it. I was finally able to take the time to get the issue escalated to the next level of CS a few weeks ago and get things moving.

Are you using one remote or two? Could there be conflicting commands between the AVR remote and the DirecTV remote?

Only using the directv remote. Woke up to a frozen receier once again today. Nothing but a strange green flashing apttern on the screen requiring a reset once again. Been on the phone trying to get through to an intelligent person for the last hour. No luck yet. I am on hold once again....

Only using the directv remote. Woke up to a frozen receier once again today. Nothing but a strange green flashing apttern on the screen requiring a reset once again. Been on the phone trying to get through to an intelligent person for the last hour. No luck yet. I am on hold once again....

And this is the second receiver where this is happening? And you are now HDMI'd from the DVR to the TV? Have you tried another TV?